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demento · 7 months

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#objectively speaking math puzzles are horrible. they are clearly the right answer here #HOWEVER i also hate the stupid board ones that are rare to find (but even fucking worse)#professor layton #shrimp4thou #polls #if u even care my favourite puzzle is a maze puzzle. second fave is logic puzzle #geometry puzzles are only so far down bc im bad at them but i heavily enjoy them

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mishapen-dear · 7 months

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god what is UP with all of the eggs. why the 12. we potentially have 11 og eggs, and two weirdo little outliers.

og eggs: tilin, flippa, trump, bobby, dapper, chayanne, ramon, leo wall eggs (potentially waiting since adoption day): tallulah, pomme; memories egg.

that's 11 eggs in the wall. There is potentially another dead egg in the wall. Maybe 2 more, if Leo doesn't count as a wall egg because they were airdropped in when the centre ran out of eggs.

Confirmed Strange eggs:

-Richarlyson. He also seems to have been airdropped in for the brazilians, and one of his legs is missing (but, notably, not his foot, which floats freely beneath him. he's pointed this out before, but I don't know if he was being silly or making a Note about it the way he's noted how weird his adoption was)

-A1. Found (and killed) in a testing centre; the only person we ever saw them interact with was ElQuackity. We don't know their origin or age at death.

interesting notes:

leo was a surprise addition airdropped in for foolish and vegetta after the adoption centre ran out of eggs (because bad and quackity each took one egg with them). It's possible she was on standby just in case bad and quackity teamed up and only ended up taking one egg, which would leave one free for fooligetta and leave everyone with 7 eggs, but. it's interesting lore-wise that they were able to just throw her in.

that would mean that Richas is not the first egg that was suddenly added in- maybe relevant to Leo's strange premonitions? Both have had super/paranormal Lore.

there may be two more eggs somewhere in the labyrinth.

why the hell did memories egg wait in the wall so long they Died. why was cellbit sent to check on them. did the feds expect them to be alive? or were they making a point to cellbit?

in TOTAL we have 13 known eggs. 10 of those are Confirmed Wall Eggs. All eggs (other than a1) were found inside/near the wall. Richas and Leo were airdropped in (although leo's airdropping may be less Lore and more "lets make sure there's enough eggs for the event"). We don't know what the fuck is up with A1

idk what the hell im talking about i just know it's WEIRD.

#qsmp #qsmp eggs #like no matter how you do the math it does Not match up #i'm convinced that the 12 discussed is a different batch of eggs than our og eggs #because including leo that would have been 8 and not including her it would have been 7 #why was pomme in a different location #what is up with the maze eggs #and the accessories seem more and more significant

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song-linked-from-nine-verses · 26 days

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/referencing jyocho's guide and devote MV, Linked Maze Bunny on a flute

#9 verses #a song linked from 9 verses #a song linked from nine verses #band au #rambles and brainstorms #math rock #lm bunny #stuff that references other stuff #linked maze

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allcatsconstitutethesamefamily · 7 months

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It all adds up: my collection of vintage math, mathematicians, and sacred geometry.

#math #maze #cat #mouse #cheese #vintage illustration #illustration

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mazegirl168 · 10 months

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Algorithm is not a bad word

Named for Arabic mathematician al-Khwarizmi and partially formalized by queer mathematician Alan Turing, algorithms are simply a process for doing things, potentially with a desired result.

An early algorithm we learn in school is how to add two whole numbers together. Using pencil and paper, you can probably figure out what 420 + 69 is. In fact there are multiple ways. You could draw out 420 dots, draw another 69 dots, and count how many there are in total. Or you could lay them vertically, start at the ones column, and compute the digits of the sum.

Algorithms are not strictly related to numbers. What if you’re a teacher and you want to sort homework assignments alphabetically by the students’ names? Well you’ll probably have a process, which involves checking repeatedly if two pieces of homework are out of order (e.g. if you had homework from Bob then homework from Alice, you would swap the two since Alice is first alphabetically).

Another great non-numerical example of algorithms is solving the Rubik’s Cube and it’s larger variants. In the cube solving community, there are algorithms for specific processes, such as rotating corners cubies or flipping edge cubies. Some of these apply to the 3x3x3 cube, others can be generalized to help one solve a 69x69x69 cube.

Algorithms are also beautiful. Visualizing how the data dances around can be incredible. Check out this animation from Wikipedia showing the Heapsort algorithm in action:

This inspired the hell outta me when I first saw it in 2007. That diagram a couple seconds in, where it just sounds like it’s emitting a thunky beep at ya before suddenly just putting everything together. The way there’s sort of a pattern before it. Just that sheer magic.

You can also make art out of algorithms. From my username, one of my favorite categories is maze generation algorithms. Think Labyrinth, whose algorithm page I just linked, was an early website I found on the Internet, and I’m so happy it has survived the various eras of web evolution. The Maze of Theseus in particular was a huge inspiration for me after printing it out in 2000 on a summer road trip.

Alas Think Labyrinth is from before the days of heavy animations on the Internet, so to visualize a maze algorithm I will instead link to Mike Bostock’s article on Visualizing Algorithms. It includes many dynamic animations that are rendered in your browser, including the sorting algorithms and maze generation algorithms mentioned above, among many others.

So why the hate for algorithms?

On Tumblr in the past few days, and more generally social media in the past decade, we recently saw favoritism for sorting algorithms that allow us to view our feeds in chronological order. Many claimed they were opposed to an algorithm that decided in a corporate-specific manner what we should see first. Let me be clear: the corporate ordering of a feed is bad, but it is not bad because it’s an algorithm. It’s bad because it’s not one of the algorithms that users want for ordering their feed.

The other negative use case grew heavily in the past 15 years: algorithms that are “trained” on biased and/or unethically obtained data. We’ve seen many examples of systems that were trained on data sets of white college students such as facial recognition technology, which then later gets implemented at a large scale and fucks over people of color. The past couple years we’ve seen a rise in creating data sets based on scraping millions of artists’ works without any permission from the artists themselves*. Either of these applied to a corporate or government scale leads to active harm to populations already at risk and probably some new ones too.

Finally, we’ve seen a rise in computer automation for things that should be done by people. I can’t find the specifics, but this quote is allegedly from a 1979 IBM presentation:

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

My first thought on where this comes up is applying for jobs. Many companies will use a poorly thought out algorithm to filter through job applications, simply scanning for a couple key words they want (programmers who know Vulkan or Node.js) or more maliciously looking for words they don’t want (needing any kind of accommodation, sounding too anti-capitalist, etc). These algorithms cannot be held accountable and should not be involved in any stage of the hiring process.

Quick aside: When I was searching for the source of that quote about accountability, I typed in the first half in Google, and the autocomplete was

Fucking modern Google.

Some concluding thoughts

I like algorithms. They are a passion of mine. When people say algorithms are evil, I’m sad. When people recognize the usage of certain algorithms in certain contexts are evil, I’m more happy (yet still disturbed these things happen). I just really wanted to educate people on the usage of the word.

Also, algorithms are not about Al Gore’s dance moves. Please stop with that stupid fucking joke.

*I mentioned scraping data from millions of images without permission of the creators. My one iffy status with this is how sort of applies to the human brain doing a similar process over the span of one’s life. What is it that separates my looking through a book of Escher’s works from a computer looking at it?

Obviously many things, but I’m horrendous as philosophy and ethics, so I’m just gonna stay in my comfort zone of pure algorithms and try not to get too involved. Experts can figure out a more formal definition for what I can only describe as a gut feeling.

#algorithm #tumblr #math #mazes #maze generation #heapsort

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flyhighaangle · 2 years

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wallter white voice . we neeed to cook jumpy

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tawneybel · 7 months

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Song of the day: “Mice Circus” from Coraline. ‘Cause I’m planning on rereading spooky books from my childhood this month.

Starting a new job soon, so sorry there was no imagine last week. Will try to post more before it starts. Including would involves. The 20th's my birthday, so I'm also getting ready for that.

I don’t eat red meat or know the different levels of steak, so the day before yesterday I ordered seared tuna on a kaiser roll. Medium-something. This was directly after reading the part in Stephen King’s Holly where the evil couple eat a kid’s brains. They also coerced their prisoners to eat raw liver. That is what I was thinking about during Sunday brunch. ಠ_ಠ

Except for dessert, which was a raspberry syrup-covered pastry which came free because it was a birthday brunch for a member of our party. We shared. :D

Went to a carnival the other week. Had a hand-rolled pretzel and root beer for the first time in a while. The pretzel was buttery and ever so vinegary. Root beer is one of my favorite drinks, but I only have it once a year.

There was a table with free books, so I got some. One of them was in the Anno’s Math Games series.

It’s like an illustrated version of my dog. :D

There’s also a chapter devoted to mazes.

#Tawney talks #Coraline #birthday #meat #Stephen King #minors do not interact #dog #Holly #cannibalism mention #horror #red meat #fish #seafood #Anno's Math Games #maze #Mitsumasa Anno #Anno Mitsumasa #Anno's Math Games III

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propagated-fern · 1 year

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28 Apr 23

I just cut my hair a tiny bit and it feels so good and fun and rebellious!!! I absolutely love the pure feelings of happiness and freedom as my parents would definitely tell me off if they found out! (yes, this is my rebellious extent 😂)

Aside from that, House MD and Maze Runner inspired playlists 🎶 are doing wonders for my motivation and I'm finally coming out of the burnt out depressive hole I've dug for myself a few weeks back. It's so great to just see the process of studying more subjects for longer and doing well again! Although my first exam is in 18 days (and I haven't even finished the course yet 😫) so I gotta get a move on on that!!

Recently I ordered Dead Poet's Society on Waterstones but got an email that there's been an error and they don't have the book 💔 but I did end up having a lovely interaction with one of their staff via email and was notified that the book (Cursed Crowns) I ordered a while back is in stock and should come this week!!

🎧 - Doctor Gregory House by Deadpoetwilde

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donghuamuqing · 11 months

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Will who impulsively tells the truth despite hating confrontation and mike that has to clean up the mess it might leave behind afterward

#my post #troys making fun of them and will is quiet in the back of group until he pipes up #‘wow. youre really ugly’#like he just understood a hard math problem #and the party RUNS #this is unrealisric bc he had to live with lonnie but i can imagine that as a kid he hates lying or pretending something isnt happening that #that is happening #my boy had to work up the courage to lie to mike after 10 million yrs of friendship and im kind of proud of him #i also like a will thats reallllllyyy concerningly good at lying esp to authority figures #inside u there r 2 wills…. one that lies and one that only tells the truth #ok ok mike doing a vecna mind maze a la labrinth movie ft david bowie #and he reaches a part thinking this is it hes made it thru #but there are two doors and two figures curled up before them #one is teenage will begging mike to believe that el loves him and theyre good for each other #and the other is a small child will. around the time he was taken the first time #asking him why he abandoned him that summer why he ignored him #saying he thought theyd go crazy together and crying thats what he wants why doesnt mike want it too #and mike has to choose #a mike faced with two crying wills. whats gonna happen

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timbourinedrake · 1 year

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Yeah I got into all my uni's with barely two A levels, no formal art education and just pure DC fanart, what of it

#Animation uni lecturers getting early access to my Talia animatic #Best validation that its going well i guess #maze speaks #working smarter not harder really paid off for me yall #deciding to just stop going to my maths a level classes was truly the best decision i ever made

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ailelie · 2 years

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This is an easier maze that I still managed to struggle with and took a roundabout path to the answer. I'll post the answer later.

#area mazes #math #logic puzzle

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ajournalingtrex · 2 years

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do you ever look back on a childhood friendship and think “that person definitely has an instagram account dedicated to furry **** now.”

#she was my best friend for like 3 years #she asked if i wanted to be her girlfriend but i thought she meant girl best friend and i said yes #and then she tried to kiss me in the center of a corn maze at youth group #and i was like !!!!!! YOOOOO !!!!! WHAT THE FUCKKKK GIRLLLL #it took my other best friend (her boyfriend) explaining to me that she thought we were dating #for me to understand that 6th graders were allowed to be gay #he and i drafted a very dramatic breakup letter and slipped it to her in math #and she got upset and as a sorry we played seven nation army at recess #i was on the uke and he was on the ocarina #so that’s the closest i’ve ever been to a thruple #anyway i hope she’s doing alright bc she had so much going on

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soup-is-nice-sometimes · 2 months

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trying to work out when I'll have time to read today cause I have a shit ton of stats stuff to do (I don't even take stats - it's part of general math 😭) but my (school) library books are also due today and I rlly don't wanna have to reissue the second one

... sigh I'm so busy :(

#books #the maze runner #im reading the scorch trials rn #reading #i hate stats #im gay of course i cant do math /j

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beaktube · 1 year

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